Agatha The Legendary Guild Master

I closed the team chat as I was thinking about the vague future ahead of me. At least, I had solved the imminent crisis caused by Respon or his harem. As for my biggest ticking bomb, I didn't know how I should solve it. 

Maybe when I settle my new adventure group and gain many players I could have the ability to establish my guild, but this wasn't certain. The risk of joining an adventure group was heaven and earth different than setting up a guild.

I sighed, as my life here was moving from bad to worse, at least I was fighting back and didn't lose hope, or my life, yet. I turned to face the huge building of the blacksmith hall.

I would lie if I said I wasn't excited to go back there, as the last experience of forging swords was really something unique. I yearned to try it again, and now I had to do it as I must make as much equipment for my new team as I could.

Just as I reached the front door to the hall, I noticed the shadow of someone moving ahead of me, as that person reached the reception desk at Lary. I felt some curiosity, as I thought that was a player. Who else would come here and speak to Lary if he wasn't a player?

I moved a couple of meters ahead to discover it wasn't he but a she. That player was a female player, a wizard, that stood in front of Lary and there seemed to be some intense debate there. I didn't stop as my female self urged me to go there and know what they were talking about.

"That's just outrageous, the prices weren't like this in previous worlds."

"That's our new changes, if you can't afford it now, then go back and try to save more money."

"No, I can't go back without learning the craft at least. Give me a discount, you know I'm your first player to come here. show me some warm welcome this hall is famous for."

"Sorry lady, you are wrong."

"What? You also stopped doing that warm welcome discount?"

"No, you are mistaken about being the first player to come here."

"You are kidding me, right? Who else would leave leveling up with his team and friends to come here and learn the craft?"

"Well, you can turn and meet that player yourself."

Their voices were so loud that I managed to hear just when I entered inside the building. I didn't reach their place when Lary exposed my identity to this player, who turned abruptly and glared at me with some blaming look. She was cute, nearly a couple of years older than me, but she was shorter. 

Her face was pure white like milk and rounded, with two azure green eyes and very dark blue long hair. She looked so funny with her childish angry look on her face, somehow she reminded me of my little sister.

"So, you are that mysterious player that this NPC is claiming to come here before me, right?"

I took back my words about her, she wasn't like my sister, she was exactly a copy of her, even her impulsive personality which exceeded mine by miles.

"Hi Lary, is my room available?" I smiled widely to Lary ignoring her, which made her more furious. My little sister was always quick to get angry, easy to be dealt with. 

The secret lied in what she really needed, and this little girl here needed a studio to rent, but she seemed not to have all the gold coins needed to do that. Surprisingly, I had enough coins to help her.

Before she could say something that would change my plans towards her to the absolute opposite, I looked at her as I said:

"I also want to help my little friend here and invite her to a studio like mine. It's my treat this time, what do you think?"

The female player got startled from my offer, as she never expected that. I looked at her with amusement, as she was really my sister, even in her funny reaction just now. I added:

"This is my treat, don't be shy and accept it. tell me, how gold coins do you have?"

The girl was still shocked from my words, but she spontaneously replied to my question:

"I-I have five gold coins here."

"Good, I will complete her missing three gold coins, is it ok?" I directed my words towards Lary who just smiled and nodded. He was also amused by that girl's reaction.

"W-Why do you help me?" she asked, then she knew she was like rejecting my offer in a rude way, so she hurried to add:

"I-I mean you don't know me, right?"

"Well, let's say we are fated to be friends, what's your name?" I jumped over this subject and started to really know who she was. The girl was still in her own world of shock, while she replied:

"My name is Drina."

"Hi Drina, my name is Agatha."

Just as I said my name, the face of this girl changed color at once; she was like she was beaten by a snake. I felt weird from her reaction, and she seemed to regain her consciousness, and realized how she reacted just now, so she said:

"S-Sorry, your name is just so famous right now, aren't you the one who took the adventure group challenge?"

I understood the reason of her reaction, and an idea popped up my head, so I asked at once:

"Which group do you belong to?"

This was logic, as she had this many gold coins early in the game, left leveling up and focused on learning blacksmith. This was an act of big groups, not only mere ordinary player teams, or that was what I believed.

"I-I'm from Solaris. My sister and I were just speaking about you," Drina said with an embarrassed look.

"Your sister?" I asked.

"Y-Yes, my sister is the vice leader of our group."

I paused for a moment, as this Drina wasn't easy, at least her relations were. Solaris was one of the big adventure groups in the game, and considering her sister's position, I needed to clear their stand before I became involved with Drina. 

I really liked her, but sometimes you needed to give up what you like in fear of losing what you dear most.

"And what is your group stand from my group?"

Better than circling around the topic, I asked it directly. I needed a clear direct answer from her. As I expected, she showed great hesitation before saying:

"D-Do you want me to tell you the truth?"

I nodded simply without hesitation, as truth was better than false sweet words.

"There is a debate right now inside our group. M-my sister is leading the direction of being neutral to your group, but our group leader is opposing that."

I felt some relief after hearing her words. As long as the decision wasn't taken yet, I could interfere using my soft power. Drina was destined to be my way to affect that group decision, so I became more sure about helping her.

"So, the decision isn't made yet, right?" I asked.

"Yes, but the two sides are nearly equal at the moment. Except for that distasteful leader who got huge support from many aristocratic families, my sister would have been the one leading our group," Drina said with bitterness and some hatred. 

She was pure, very pure like my sister, so I patted over her shoulders as I tried to reassure her:

"Don't worry, one day your sister will claim what is rightfully hers."

"Sigh, I also hope the same, but things won't go that way. This all happened because she refused a relationship request from an heir to a strong noble family, and since then things went south for her. 

She was supposed to take charge of the group here, but after that refusal she began to be oppressed from everyone. Sigh, she is really in a bad corner right now."

I thought for a moment, as her sister reminded me of myself. I was also trying to find a way out of my current complicated life, and up till now I couldn't make any progress at all. I sighed, life was really complicated and very harsh on every girl, stunning beautiful ones in particular.

I thought of helping Drina and her sister, as they were trying to stand by my side. However, doing so would make me acquire more enemies. after giving this some thought, I realized that this was all done by those harem of that weak Respon. 

How could someone like him overcome Shin? There was a huge disparity in their characters and traits. I sighed again, as if this happened at Solaris group, then it must have also happened at the rest of the big and small groups. 

That meant one more friend was worth fighting for, at least I would decrease the list of my enemies by one big name.

"Tell me, is blacksmith important to your group?" I asked.

"Sure it is, that distasteful shameless leader of ours earned his place and supporters by securing one talented blacksmith disciple of a well-known blacksmith in the empire," she explained with her spontaneous nature.

"Hmmm, then I have a proposition for your sister, can you tell her about it and return to me?"